Jack the Station Cat and the August Day
Title | Jack the Station Cat and the August Day PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Cliff |
Publisher | Gwasg Helygain Ltd |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Cats |
ISBN | 1906800022 |
Something unsusal is happening at Tail's End Station. First, a splendid Pullman car arrives. Next, Mr Parker the Station Master receives a model railway locomotive which puzzles everybody. What is so special about a day in August? Jack The Station Cat means to find out
Jack the Station Cat and the Vanishing Lady
Title | Jack the Station Cat and the Vanishing Lady PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Cliff |
Publisher | Gwasg Helygain Ltd |
Pages | 2 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1906800030 |
Jack the Station Cat is asked by 008, the Secret Service Cat, to help him find Lady Tilly, the Corris Railway's cat. Lady Tilly vanished at Jack's station, Tail's End. Can Jack find her? Perhaps Ozimandius the Owl and Harri P. Otter can help.
Terraforming Earth
Title | Terraforming Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Williamson |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2010-06-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429982454 |
Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel When a giant meteor crashes into the earth and destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet and establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, men and woman are able to observe the devastated planet and wait for a time when return will become possible. Generations pass. Cloned children have had children of their own, and their eyes are raised toward the giant planet in the sky which long ago was the cradle of humanity. Finally, after millennia of waiting, the descendants of the original refugees travel back to a planet they've never known, to try and rebuild a civilization of which they've never been a part. The fate of the earth lies in the success of their return, but after so much time, the question is not whether they can rebuild an old destroyed home, but whether they can learn to inhabit an alien new world--Earth. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Sense of an Ending
Title | The Sense of an Ending PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Barnes |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2011-10-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307957330 |
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Jack Strong Takes a Stand
Title | Jack Strong Takes a Stand PDF eBook |
Author | Tommy Greenwald |
Publisher | Roaring Brook Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2013-09-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 159643838X |
Jack Strong just wants to be a regular kid. But his parents have overscheduled his week with every extracurricular activity under the sun: tennis, baseball, cello, karate, tutoring, and Chinese language lessons—all on top of regular homework. His parents want him to be "well-rounded" and prepared for those crucial college applications. Jack's just about had enough. And so, in Jack Strong Takes a Stand by Tommy Greenwald, he stages a sit-in on his couch and refuses to get up until his parents let him quit some of the extracurriculars. As Jack's protest gains momentum, he attracts a local television host who is interested in doing a segment about him. Tensions rise as counter-protesters camp out across the street from Jack and his couch. Jack's enjoying this newfound attention, but he's worried that this sit-in may have gone too far.
Jack and Jill
Title | Jack and Jill PDF eBook |
Author | Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2017-07-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1504046277 |
From the author of Little Women: An American classic of young best friends in a rustic New England town. In post–Civil War New England, thirteen-year-old Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are inseparable best friends who live next door to each other in the town of Harmony Village. The pair does everything together—so much so that Janey is nicknamed “Jill” to fit the old children’s rhyme. One winter day, the friends share a sled down a treacherous hill and both end up injured and bedridden. Unable to go out and have fun, Jack, Jill, and their circle of friends begin to learn about more than the fun and games of their youth and discover what it means to grow up—exploring their town, their hearts, and the big, wide world beyond for the first time. This charming, wistful coming-of-age tale, written twelve years after Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, examines the strange, tempestuous changes of adolescence with homespun heart and worldly wisdom.
A Loving, Faithful Animal
Title | A Loving, Faithful Animal PDF eBook |
Author | Josephine Rowe |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2017-09-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 193678758X |
"I found myself considering those rare things only books can do, feats outside the purview of film or fine art . . . Gorgeous." —Samantha Hunt, The New York Times Book Review It is New Year’s Eve 1990, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru’s father, Jack, one of thousands of Australians once conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War, has disappeared. This time Ru thinks he might be gone for good. As rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscape beyond their door, the rest of the family is barely holding on. Ru’s sister, Lani, is throwing herself into sex, drugs, and dangerous company. Their mother, Evelyn, is escaping into memories of a more vibrant youth. And meanwhile there is Les, Jack’s inscrutable brother, who seems to move through their lives like a ghost, earning both trust and suspicion. A Loving, Faithful Animal is an incandescent portrait of one family searching for what may yet be redeemable from the ruins of war. Tender, brutal, and heart–stopping in its beauty, this novel marks the arrival in the United States of Josephine Rowe, the winner of the 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Prize and one of Australia’s most extraordinary young writers.